When inflation goes down, stocks go up
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🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Stock traders on Wall Street were feeling bullish on Wednesday. All three major stock indexes in the U.S. rose to record highs on the back of yesterday’s inflation report. The consumer price index report, which showed inflation cooling, made traders optimistic about the prospect of an interest rate cut. Then, we’ll delve into the staggering costs of inequities in mental health care and hear how Americans are feeling about tariffs on Chinese goods.
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| 0:34.0 | My name is Lee Hawkins. |
| 0:40.0 | I've been a journalist for over 25 years. On my new podcast, What Happened in Alabama, |
| 0:47.0 | I get answers to some of the hardest questions about how things came to be for many black Americans and the truth that must come |
| 0:55.3 | before any reconciliation can happen. I investigate my family history, my upbringing |
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| 1:07.0 | What happened in Alabama is a new series confronting the cycles of trauma for myself, my family, and for many black Americans. |
| 1:16.0 | Listen now. inflation even affects stock market indicators. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm David Brancaccio. A surge in stock buying yesterday pushed the Dow |
| 1:35.4 | S&P and the NASDAQ to record highs yesterday. This after an inflation |
| 1:39.9 | report that showed improvement, the S&P gained 1.2% the NASDAQ went up 1.4%. |
| 1:46.0 | Here's Marketplace's Henry Epp. |
| 1:48.0 | A slightly cooler inflation report made traders optimistic again |
| 1:52.0 | that an interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve |
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